Can't Fight It

The "varied carols" of America: a democratic history -- pt. 1. A larger memory. The ties that bind : Roots: a multicultural memory ; "The vast, surging, hopeful army of workers" ; A nation that did "not perish from the Earth": a legacy of black men in blue ; Breaking silences: brushing against the grain -- pt. 2. A city upon a hill. A horror remembered ; Olaudah Equiano's passage to America -- pt. 3. A manifest destiny. The significance of the frontier in American history: an Indian perspective : The coming of the Wasichus: Black Elk's boyhood memories ; The end of the frontier for a Winnebago -- From sunup to sundown: laboring in the cotton fields : "Don't give a nigger an inch": Frederick Douglass learns to read ; "The best mistress and master in the world": Millie Evans ; "Git this nigger to the cotton patch": Jenny Proctor's complaint ; After slavery: a personal account of the new bondage -- Fleeing English tyranny: the Irish cross the Atlantic : Finding her voice for militant labor: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Strangers from a different short: the Chinese : "How can I call this my home?": Lee Chew ; "Like country pretty much": Kee Low ; "A chance to take care of myself": a Chinese-American daughter -- pt. 4. A multicultural destiny. Beyond the pale: Jewish immigrants in a promised land : A sweatshop girl: Sadie Frowne ; Dear editor: letters from Jewish America, problems and advice -- Betrayed by their country: the World War II internment of Japanese Americans : A birthright denied: Monica Sone ; A birthright renounced: Joseph Kurihara -- Fighting on the "frontier" of the Pacific war: Native Americans : The Indian hero of Iwo Jima: letters from Ira Hayes -- Transplanted in Chicago: the Polish : Bilingual education in Polonia ; A stepchild of America: Thomas Napierkowski -- El Norte: up from Mexico : Searching for a door to America: Jesús Garza ; A song of El Norte: Camelia Palafox ; Twice a minority: María Jiménez joins the Army -- Beyond Ellis Island: the Italians : Growing up between two worlds: Joanna Dorio -- India in the West: new passages : Reinventing herself in America: Shanti -- Puerto Ricans: the island is in the heart : Growing up Puerto Rican in New York: Maria Diaz -- The 1992 Los Angeles riot: Korean-American dreams in flames : "Not going to let the riots beat me": Sun Soon Kim -- Blacks in the cities: no time to wait ; The "disappearance" of work: hard times for Jimmy Morse ; A chance to act affirmatively: Bryan K. Fair -- Epilogue : Creating a community of a larger memory.